REmakes have been the bread and butter of cinema for quite some time. They may be accompanied by the occasional half-hearted moan, but more often than not they offer the interesting potential of a classic adapted to the modern age. This experience is not exclusive to cinema, however, as remakes have been a resounding success in recent years thanks to video games.

A skeptical gamer may criticize the alleged taking of money from a remake. There is an urgent need for originality in today’s marketplace, and mining content from the past does not exactly work in this direction. However, the power of nostalgia is strong. Allow former fans to revisit a game like Demon souls in stunning resolution gives good reasons to go on board. But beyond the delight of old fans, the remakes have the exciting potential to introduce existing properties to a whole new audience.

The last IP to have set their sights on the potential of a remake is Visceral Games’ Dead space. A 2008 sci-fi horror game full of dark hallways, horrific undead monsters, and a cargo of terror. While the original studio is not running this operation – they were disbanded shortly after the series’ third entry had disappointing sales – a Dead Space remake offers the potential to revive a franchise long considered dead. with an influx of new fans.

After more than a decade since its release, when Dead Space is finally re-released, I’ll be one of those who wander aimlessly around USG Ishimura for the first time. Despite 11 years of constant play, the original Dead Space sadly overtook me, like a ship floating silently in space – they say no one can hear you screaming there.

However, it’s not just a cult classic like Dead space that I have not been able to experience. I have, in fact, a huge pop culture divide for everything in video games leading up to 2010. Also being a game journalist, you can imagine that there are quite a few conversations around series like Halo or resident Evil Unfortunately, I had to step aside.

Recently, however, the popularization and growing success of remakes has allowed these conversations to reopen. Remakes and remasters such as The Master Chief collection and Resident Evil 2 This means that, like many others, I have experienced many games that were first lost due to aging technology. These were reimagined franchises being refreshed for modern times.

Still, there is an obvious solution to my backlog of games that were supposedly inaccessible before 2010. Why not just dust off my Xbox 360 or buy a used PlayStation 1? I might even play all along Dead space trilogy right now on my Xbox Series X – it’s even included in Game Pass. There are a variety of options that make accessing games like Dead Space as easy as a game released today.

Nonetheless, this is not the path that I or many others choose to follow. With in-game technology advancing at an astronomical rate, we’ve seen visual fidelity in games like Assassin’s Creed Valhalla or mechanical perfection in something like Apex Legends, which was simply not possible to this extent just ten years ago. As futuristic as it may sound, the level of technical quality today is higher than in the past and it is all the more difficult to take a step back.

That’s why a remake for a game like Dead space is so important. Looking at the gameplay of the original Resident Evil 2 revealed an experience that would have bored me from the first hour. However, Capcom’s 2019 remake became one of my favorites that year. Growing up in a post-2010 gaming era, which is increasingly becoming the case as the popularity of games increases, studios need to look at what works and what doesn’t through a modern lens.

I want to experience Isaac Clarke’s fight for survival in all the bloody glory – with gunges dripping down the walls, screaming necromorphs, and plasma cutters burning viscerally through the slippery limbs. And I want it all with 3D sound, haptic feedback, and resolutions good enough to blur the lines of my TV and reality.

Of course, all of these may be superfluous. I had so much fun in polygonal games like Gang of beasts like I got in photo-realists like God of War. The main story and the gameplay loop must be there before anything else matters. But for atmospheric games like Dead space or resident Evil, these technical advantages not only bring games from the 90s and 2000s to the present day, but also fully realize the vision of time-limited games. And the gaming industry is starting to realize this.

Take this principle and apply it to Dead space, a remake would allow me and many others to experience the story of Isaac Clarke in all its bloody splendor. I want to hear screams echoing through the halls of USG Ishimura in 3D audio. I want to feel my Plasma Cutter’s every shot with haptic feedback as it weaves its way through another limb of a necromorph. While these details may be present in the original in one way or another, through a modern lens, they will pale in comparison to what is possible now.

Through the rush of remakes, remasters, and next-gen upgrades, we’re starting to see an industry suited to showing new players what they’ve been missing out on. With next generation upgrade coming for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt this year, full-fledged remake rumors are circulating The last of us, and even improved Xbox performance through backward compatibility, the remake revival is in full swing.

This is a fantastic direction for the industry, as for years games have been left in the dust of bigger, better, and more technologically advanced successors. And as gamers get used to higher resolutions, improved frame rates, and more advanced mechanics, it becomes more difficult to convince anyone to play something that is lacking in all of the above.

The nature of the gaming industry is and always will be an ever-advancing and ruthless machine. However, with remakes like Dead space, developers find a way to keep what came before. Reviving franchises like this gives me hope to discover more like Metal gear or silent Hill – come on Sony, your move.

Ultimately, however, this is a celebration of video games. Simultaneously celebrate how far we’ve come, while inviting a new era of gamers into closed conversation across time. And sometimes, it turns out that those conversations are about ferocious undead necromorphs.

EA Motive’s Dead Space remake is coming at some point in the future.